Set­tings

Here you can con­fig­ure the ap­pear­ance of the CTAN por­tal
(skin­ning) to fit to your per­sonal taste.
This fea­ture can even be used with­out a com­mu­nity mem­ber­ship on the CTAN
por­tal and with­out be­ing logged in.

Skins

You are cur­rently us­ing the skin gray.

You do not have JavaScript en­abled. Thus the skin can not be set.

The skin­ning uses client side tech­nolo­gies only. This means
that cook­ies and JavaScript need to be en­abled for this
fea­ture to work prop­erly. This also means that the skin is bound
to the browser in­stance. If you use an­other com­puter then the skin is
not pre­served. Nev­er­the­less other users are not af­fected by your
set­tings.

You can se­lect a skin from the list be­low. The se­lec­tion is
ac­ti­vated im­me­di­ately and re­mains ac­ti­vated un­til changed.

Color-based Skins

Th­ese skins pro­vide an re­spon­sive Web de­sign. This means that
The lay­out adapts it­self to the space avail­able in the browser win­dow:
im­ages are sup­pressed or scaled and the two-col­umn lay­out is aban­doned
on smaller de­vices.

This skin tries to present the por­tal in a pleas­ing
grayscale lay­out. Some graph­ics are used to sup­port the
ap­pear­ance. But in gen­eral they are used sparsely. The lo­gos
are shown in text form, i.e. TeX in­stead of
TeX.

This skin omits many dec­o­ra­tive lay­out el­e­ments. The col­ors are
in­verted, i.e. white on black. It fo­cuses on the pre­sen­ta­tion of the
pure text. It uses the text rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the lo­gos. This is a
fine vari­ant for purists.

This skin is a rem­i­nis­cent to the old day's ter­mi­nals with am­ber
char­ac­ters on a black back­ground. It omits many dec­o­ra­tive lay­out
el­e­ments. The col­ors are in­verted, i.e. white on black. It fo­cuses
on the pre­sen­ta­tion of the pure text. It uses the text rep­re­sen­ta­tion
of the lo­gos.

This skin is a rem­i­nis­cent to the old day's ter­mi­nals with green
char­ac­ters on a black back­ground. It omits many dec­o­ra­tive lay­out
el­e­ments. The col­ors are in­verted, i.e. white on black. It fo­cuses
on the pre­sen­ta­tion of the pure text. It uses the text rep­re­sen­ta­tion
of the lo­gos.

Tex­tured Skins

Th­ese skins pro­vide an re­spon­sive Web de­sign as well. In­stead of a
plain color as text back­ground a tex­ture is used.

This skin uses a gran­ite back­ground tex­ture and slightly rounded
cor­ners. It re­quires a mod­estly re­cent browser ver­sion to see all
ef­fects. (Note that In­ter­net Ex­plorer prior to ver­sion 9 will not
show those ef­fects as de­signed)

This skin tries to present the por­tal in a pleas­ing grayscale
lay­out with a steel-like tex­ture. Some graph­ics are used to sup­port
the ap­pear­ance. But in gen­eral they are used sparsely. Only a few are
present and they are reused where ap­pro­pri­ate.

This skin uses a sketchy lay­out. The el­e­ments are de­picted by
con­struc­tion lines in the up­per left cor­ner. Some graph­ics are used
to sup­port the ap­pear­ance. A lot of trans­parency ef­fects are used.
Older browsers may not dis­play them cor­rectly.